Sentence examples for explanations rather than from inspiring English sources

DAVID BERMAN New York, Aug. 29, 2013 Mr. Maskin argues that economics is a science like seismology in that it primarily provides explanations rather than predictions.

McNamara cited the strains of travel, and of preparing under the misplaced assumption that they would be able to use all their squad, as explanations rather than excuses for their collapse into a second 18-all draw in two weeks.

Alma's is a story of the Enlightenment, when people first thought to look to the natural world for life's explanations, rather than to human-centric creation stories of an earth-anchored universe.

These two items required what Mayr (1991) referred to as proximal explanations rather than evolutionary or ultimate (teleological, theistic) explanations.

That's because most scientific accounts of sexual behaviour rest upon evolutionary explanations rather than the more immediately relevant mental and emotional experiences.

In light of mental anomalism, why think that reason explanations are causal explanations, rather than a sui generis form of noncausal explanation?

Better to focus on "the laws of literary history" — on explanation, rather than interpretation.

Anyone who wants explanation rather than storytelling will have to turn elsewhere for an answer.

The context of my behaviour (that I was in a bad mood) was, I thought, very clearly just an explanation, rather than any kind of justification.

Again, Raines finds a selfless explanation: "Rather than courting misjudgment on all sides, he chose to act for the children and leave the world in the dark".

If reason were only to prevail, then "the past could provide not a prison but an exit, an explanation, rather than a historical legitimation".